The Dark Souls of climbing games: Cairn leans into the challenge of mountaineering
Seven ways to experience the best of Switzerland
June 2024
Terrawatch
Deep mantle movements help explain Earth’s mysterious bulges
Tectonic movement creates most basins and ridges, but study finds deep mantle temperatures also have a role
Bagging a Munro gets easier as volunteers fund repairs to mountain paths
Scottish Highlands campaign has raised two-thirds of £300,000 target for footpaths on An Teallach. But more is needed to protect people and environment
Wyoming commuter highway collapses in landslide leaving gaping chasm
Chasm in Teton Pass road severs link between Idaho and Jackson as governor signs order declaring an emergency
May 2024
Country diary
Country diary 1974: a new staircase to the heights
Country diary
Country diary: Life in slow motion reveals so much more
April 2024
Mount Fuji view to be blocked as tourists overcrowd popular photo spot
Fujikawaguchiko town official says choice to erect huge barrier is ‘regrettable’ and last resort
Upstaging Umbria: rugged and seductive Le Marche
Far wilder and less populated than its more fashionable neighbours, Le Marche offers spectacular mountains and a stunning coastline with none of the super-charged prices
Country diary
Country diary 1974: a perfect walk around the Kentmere skyline
1 April 1974: There were grey-blue heights flooded in hazy sunlight, brown rocks, warm to the touch and sheep cropping the new turf
March 2024
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru
Australian Alps face world’s largest loss of snow by end of century, research shows
Mount Everest is too crowded and dirty, says last living member of Hillary team
The Audio Long Read
Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits – podcast
February 2024
Country diary
Country diary 1974: the fell path is a gouged-out watercourse
25 February 1974: There is so much water that the only way is to squelch straight ahead and feel it strike cold even through thick leather
January 2024
The long read
Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
The long read: Jérémie Heitz has pushed freeriding to breathtaking, beautiful new extremes. But as the risks get bigger, the questions do, too
Self and wellbeing
My path to inner peace, via ‘Dalifornia’ in southwest China
How leaving Beijing for Dali, home of China’s urban escapees, was a step on my route to finding serenity
Kashmir’s ski resort waits for visitors after just one day of snow this winter
The Guardian documentary
Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
The Guardian documentary
Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
